Flero

Flero lies on the high plain just south of Brescia, on flat ground where water rises from many springs. The name first appears in 841, as Freores, in a document of Ramperto, bishop of Brescia: some link it to the Byzantine word frear, a spring or a place of springs, others to the Gallic fl-ur, which means the same. A later document, though, writes Infleures, "among the flowers", and another idea traces the dialect form Fler to filèr, rows of vines.

The arms speak of fields rather than water: three golden maize cobs on red, under a green chief. From 1927 to 1956 Flero was not even a comune of its own, joined to Poncarale in a single body called Poncarale Flero. From further back come a Gallic armlet of blue glass, of the second century BC, found in what was probably a woman's grave, and the stone with which the Roman Lucio Cornelio Glicone remembered his son, dead as a child. Andrea Pirlo was born here and began playing for the village team.